The Australian Universities Teaching Committee is funding a project to investigate the learning outcomes and curriculum development in physics at Australian universities. The project aims to map current practices and future ...

This article is an examination and critical positioning of my current digital media project blackBOX Painting a Digital Picture of Documented Memory. blackBOX is an interactive CD-ROM game and also an internet work. ...

The various ways in which we understand and tell history as well as the multiple variations on the 'truth' of an event are explored in brilliant detail in Bluff Rock: Autobiogrpahy of a Massacre. This book examines a story ...

T he history of ethnicized and linguistic groups in fonner Austl;an South-Tyrol, the struggle of the German- and Ladin-' speaking communities under Fascism, the fight for political autonomy from the end of World War II ...

A ghost is haunting Australian politics, the ghost of Aboriginal power. Perhaps in the way that Marxism has been a `critical factor? in the articulation of world politics, Aboriginal power has been a spectre in white ...

It is something of a bizarre fact that at the end of the twentieth century an inordinate number ofAustralians could spell 'Goggomobil' an obscure German car from the 1950s. Stranger stillwas the inevitability that they ...

As a 'genre of history' in Australia environmental history is relatively new, emerging in the 1960s and 70s from encounters between history, geography and the natural sciences in the context of growing environmental concern ...

Historians and contemporary critics have generally taken a dim view of Australia's Bicentennial celebrations in 1988, labelling them a wasted opportunity to redress the nation's previous wrongs. While these claims certainly ...

"Yellow block" sandstone, a colloquial expression used for a locally quarried variety of sandstone, has made an important contribution to the cultural and architectural heritage of Australia's largest city, Sydney. The ...